{"id":24268,"date":"2026-08-05T13:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/teachers-need-help-with-ai-a-union-is-offering-training-with-23m-in-funding-from-big-tech\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:37:28","slug":"teachers-need-help-with-ai-a-union-is-offering-training-with-23m-in-funding-from-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/teachers-need-help-with-ai-a-union-is-offering-training-with-23m-in-funding-from-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers need help with AI. A union is offering training \u2013 with $23m in funding from big tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Partnership between American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest labor unions in the US, and AI firms has stirred controversy<\/p>\n<p>Darius Saczuk, a high school teacher, views artificial intelligence as his enemy. Earlier this year, he and several dozen New York City teachers spent the day inside a windowless conference room in downtown Manhattan to learn how to use AI and prevent students from outsourcing their thinking to it.<\/p>\n<p>As Saczuk sees it, he needs to understand his enemy in order to beat it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/aug\/05\/teachers-unions-ai-training\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/562f7360760960fb98074e8e10194a943d5ea6a8\/141_227_2716_2173\/master\/2716.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9f5b6baff4dc487b410715a9a69d20b3\" title=\"Teachers need help with AI. A union is offering training \u2013 with $23m in funding from big tech\" \/>Partnership between American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest labor unions in the US, and AI firms has stirred controversy<br \/>\nDarius Saczuk, a high school teacher, views artificial intelligence as his enemy. Earlier this year, he and several dozen New York City teachers spent the day inside a windowless conference room in downtown Manhattan to learn how to use AI and prevent students from outsourcing their thinking to it.<br \/>\nAs Saczuk sees it, he needs to understand his enemy in order to beat it. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partnership between American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest labor unions in the US, and AI firms has stirred controversy Darius Saczuk, a high school teacher, views artificial intelligence as his enemy. Earlier this year, he and several dozen New York City teachers spent the day inside a windowless conference room in downtown Manhattan &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/teachers-need-help-with-ai-a-union-is-offering-training-with-23m-in-funding-from-big-tech\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teachers need help with AI. A union is offering training \u2013 with $23m in funding from big tech<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}